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Before and after... I heard a thousand times that a boy, or a man, can't make you happy, that you have to be happy on your own before you can be happy with another person. All I can say is, I wish it were true.
Curtis Sittenfeld
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Curtis Sittenfeld
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 23
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I wanted to hold happiness in reserve, like a bottle of champagne. I postponed it because I was afraid, because I overvalued it, and then I didn't want to use it up, because what do you wish for then?
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I gave people the benefit of the doubt, thinking, so many people that appear very calm and even boring must have all these wild emotions and crazy ideas.
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She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it.
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I think that there's some confusion in my own mind about what I believe.
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Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.
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I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself.
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I feel that Pride and Prejudice is an incredibly well constructed novel on every level. The dialogue is great. The character development is great. The plotting is great. The pacing is great. The language is great.
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I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.
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I actually liked the disolation of winter it was the season when it was okay to be unhappy. If I were to ever kill myself, I thought it would be in the summer.
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I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.
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